| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Horace Tabberer Brown: Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Sir Andrew Noble; Arnold William Reinold; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); George Johnstone Stoney; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Edward Burdett Tylor; Sir Samuel Wilks; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Officers had learned that the Government intended to reserve the Burlington Gardens building for Government uses, therefore no further action to be taken.
3. Nominations of Fellows to represent the Society at the International Catalogue Conference in June: Dr. Thorpe and Professor Armstrong to be nominated as International Council members.
4. £100 allocated from the Donation Fund for the expenses of the British Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
5. If required, a further £100 should be allocated this year for the same purpose.
6. Additions to the statutes of the International Association of Academies.
7. British delegates to propose the execution of a geodetic arc along the 30th meridian from the south of Lake Tanganyika to the International Association of Academies.
8. G. H. Darwin and Sir John Ardagh added to the Geodetic Arc Committee.
9. £300 from the Government Grant Reserve Fund awarded to the Malaria Committee.
10. £50 from the Publication Fund awarded to Dr. A. Haviland.
11. £330 from the Publication Fund, to be paid in installments of £55, awarded for the publication of the results of the Anthropological Expedition to the Tores Straits, on the application of Professor A. C. Haddon.
12. Application for £275 from the Publication Fund by Dr. A. M. W. Downing for a revised Taylor's Madras Star Catalogue, turned down, since the Fund was exhausted for the year.
13. Expense of printing circulars for the Evolution Committee to be defrayed by the Royal Society with Treasurer's approval.
14. Draft text of a memorandum on donations, noting that the most useful benefactions are those for general purposes.
15. Agreement to erect a flagstaff on Burlington House.
16. Letter from G. Washington Moon, offering for £500 a bibliography compiled by G. J. Symons, declined.
17. Treasurer's report on legal aspects on the admission of women to the Fellowship, a reply to be made to Mrs. Farquarson noting that the matter depends upon interpretation of the Charters.
18. The Foreign Secretary and Professor Dewar nominated as delegates to the International Chemical Congress in Paris.
19. G. F. Fitzgerald and J. J. Thomson nominated as delegates to the International Physical Congress in Paris.
20. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: lists of nominations to be proposed and seconded at a future meeting.
21. Omission of certain Council meetings in the coming year.
22. No amalgamations of existing Government Grant Boards to be made.
23. Transfer of Sylvester Medal Fund to the Society.
24. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a certificate authorising the transfer of stock on account of the National Physical Laboratory.
25. Report of the Government Grant Committee, with lists of grants awarded by Boards A-G. Unallotted funds to be placed at the disposal of Council of the Royal Society.
26. Captain W. H. May and Captain A. A. C. Parr proposed as members of the Joint Antarctic Committee by the Royal Geographical Society.
27. Report of the Sectional Committee for Physics and Chemistry, recommending the publication of magnetic observations from the Falmouth Observatory.
28. Leave granted for the copying of illustrations. |